Ice hockey

When it starts everything disappears the cold the noise everything. It all vanishes. At least that's how it felt when I got second at the state hockey tournament, my greatest achievement in high school so far. This experience taught me to always work hard and to have fun while doing it. Before I moved to Vermillion South Dakota I was passionate about hockey so I sought out the closet team which was in Yankton. Learning how to play with a new team was difficult because I didn't know anyone on my…

Ukraine. I attended additional ice hockey practices there. But it was the most difficult time for me. I made serious mistakes during my practices and games. My team lost several times and I felt it had been my fault. It lasted two months. I considered everything was over. I was upset and disappointed. Everything didn't go as I wanted. I met difficulties and I even was ready to stop playing hockey. Some coaches noticed my height and weight didn't correspond to hockey measures. At the end of that…

Hockey. I live hockey. I will always give anything to be on the ice. I do everything to live on the ice. I’m the type of kid who would abandon vacations and parties to go play hockey. On July 7th, 8th, and 9th, that’s exactly what I did. July 7th, 8th, and 9th consisted of my sister’s Summer Sizzler hockey tournament in Brick, New Jersey. Since the rink lay only twenty minutes away from a beach and boardwalk, my family decided we could go after their morning games with some teammates. Turned…

I would like to begin this letter by saying thank you very much for providing me with the Robert & Karin Moe Study Abroad Scholarship. This scholarship will significantly help my family and I pay for my trip to Havana, Cuba with the Global Entrepreneurship Program. I am extremely grateful for your generosity. Let me tell you a little bit about myself. I grew up in a Wheaton, IL, a suburb outside of Chicago, where I attended Wheaton Warrenville South High School. During the summer of my junior…

wide range of sports, consisting of baseball, soccer, hockey, and swimming. Each one of these sports has taught me lessons I could not have gotten anywhere else, but the most significant lessons I have learned, are from hockey. These lessons consist of teamwork, responsibility, and respect. I first started playing hockey when I was eight years old. The season had already started, so I had joined in the middle. The first time I stepped foot on the ice was in a game, I had little to no experience…

Imagine a rocket, specifically molded, perfectly symmetrical, prepared to do it’s job exactly how it needs to with no room for error. Seems almost perfect, on the other hand we have the Rockets, my AAA hockey team the summer before sixth grade. It was made up of players from the La Crosse area who played and practiced together every summer for the last few years. We weren’t exactly the most organized team in the sense of having professional attitudes. The ceiling at our practice arena had leaks…

We all know that being Canadian isn't an easy thing to do. You have to have extreme dedication to Tim Hortons, and Ice Hockey. Be careful, in Canada they do not call it ice hockey, it is hockey, and all other forms of hockey do not exist there. Also, try to avoid talking about the Toronto Maple Leafs, and their fifty year losing streak. They all know that it is happening, but they chose to ignore it. Tim Hortons is the base religon of Canada. If you do not have a cup of Timmies in your hand at…

I've asked myself which sport is better, Soccer or Hockey? Which sport deserves all the attention? Both sports are very popular around the world. Soccer has about 4 billion fans, which makes it the most popular sport in the world. Hockey has around 2 billion fans. Soccer has been around for over 2,000 years and Hockey has been around since 1875. Physically, soccer requires players to have a lot of body strength and high levels of fitness because a soccer game entails many kilometers of running…

marketing and promotions for intercollegiate athletics at the University of Wisconsin Madison. I jobbed shadow an event, the October 7th men’s hockey game between the Wisconsin Badgers and Ohio State Buckeyes at the Kohl Center. I got the insight on many things from touring the kohl center, to listening in on the meetings. Being able to shadow the hockey game, I observed many things, learned valuable lessons, and got an outlook on a possible career. Job Shadowing Adam was such an eye-opening…

stray from the norm and venture into a different mindset to build a winning team. Although there was some kickback to how Herb was constructing his team, he trusted his intuition because he knew what he wanted in his team. Because he was a former ice hockey player who almost made the Olympic team, Herb studied and had a vision on how he wanted his team to look. In order for the team to produce different results, Herb had to coach the team in a different way. Regardless of any challenges or…